Greenland, Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected
The new estimate of ice sheet melting and subsequent rise in sea level comes from an international team led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It outstrips more modest figures offered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, the last time that international body published a comprehensive assessment of the ice sheets.
“It’s going to be a concern for people in coastal areas,” said Isabella Velicogna of JPL and the University of California, Irvine, a co-author of the report online at Geophysical Research Letters. “It looks like [the IPCC estimate] will easily be an underestimate of the sea level rise.”
While six inches of additional sea height might sound small, the increase will distribute unevenly across the globe, Velicogna said, and have a disproportionate impact on low-lying countries such as Bangladesh.
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txhsmom on March 10, 2011 at 10:45 PM
Good. Maybe Greenland can become useful again.
RadClown on March 10, 2011 at 10:48 PM
I don’t know about Antarctica but under the ice in Greenland they are finding old Viking farms so I guess in 20 years will be importing wheat and exporting fertilizer. I live in the Pacific NW where just 20,000 years ago there were vast Ice Sheets, want an apple? Rising sea leaves created the Mediterranean sea. Dam those cave men and their SUVs
And does anyone know what is the optimal global temperature? Maybe we were too cold to begin with, history shows that humanity advances best when the temperatures rise.
Gwillie on March 10, 2011 at 11:03 PM
You do know that the Earth’s average temperature has been much warmer and cooler in the past than it is now, right? You do know there are numerous factors which affect the Earth’s temperature, right? You do know that there is no consensus, not even a phony one, which states with any credible authority what % humans are supposedly responsible for in the recent rise in temperature, right? Can anyone prove that humans are 0.5% responsible? 1%? 3%? 14.76%? 85%? 100?
You, like every other AGW proponent, has no real idea what %, if any, humans have been contributing to Earth’s present climate change. You hysterical geniuses are about as smart as those who wisely bought comet pills to protect themselves against the coming ill effects of Halley’s Comet’s tail as it went through the Earth’s atmosphere in 1910.
Bizarro No. 1 on March 10, 2011 at 11:05 PM
I like the following in the comments to that post:
Sharke on March 10, 2011 at 11:06 PM
Come over and steal everything you own???
BigWyo on March 10, 2011 at 11:10 PM
Farm Greenland again like they did thousands of years ago?
uknowmorethanme on March 10, 2011 at 11:18 PM
Since the Earth didn’t come with an owner’s manual how do these “scientists” know what the temperature is supposed to be.
Let’s also say for the sake of argument that the sea is going to rise. I think I have the solution. Everyone that lives on the coast take one step back. Problem solved and no carbon offsets needed. Please send my Nobel.
If the sea does rise only people without legs will be injured. Women and minorities hardest hit.
Mormon Doc on March 10, 2011 at 11:49 PM
You are very clever. I know because I had a similar thought albeit later than you did. However my post also solved the increasing sea level problem. Not bad for a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. My mother would be proud if she was sober.
Mormon Doc on March 10, 2011 at 11:54 PM
We can just rename New York, New Venice!
ronsfi on March 10, 2011 at 11:58 PM
Perhaps Gropy or cr666 or any other resident waste of skin can tell us just what the correct temperature of the Earth is supposed to be.
CurtZHP on March 11, 2011 at 12:02 AM
Yay! The end of the last ice age!
yubley on March 11, 2011 at 1:30 AM
Which is precisely the point of how absurd worrying about ‘climate change’ really is. I understand it was unwittingly on your part but it’s there all the same. Here’s the illustration:
An article, not unlike this one, reports how it is snowing in Hicksville where it is an anomoly to do so. Then someone else opines, in a futile attempt, on how things are different elsewhere. For example:
“But the ice sheets are melting!”
anuts on March 11, 2011 at 2:14 AM
Have any more villages emerged from the receding ice? You know the ones that got built before the ice and oh yeah cars and CO2?
We’ve had a few pop recently.
dogsoldier on March 11, 2011 at 6:33 AM
You are aware that villages keep emerging from this ice, right? And you get what that like actually means don’t you?
Ehhh you probably -can’t- work that out.
dogsoldier on March 11, 2011 at 6:37 AM
If the ice sheets are melting, doesn’t that mean it’s too late?
KillerKane on March 11, 2011 at 7:33 AM
Seriously, do we get anything from Bangladesh anyway? Goods? Services? Decent phone centers? Even N Korea has hot chicks, but Bangladesh? Gooney goo goo, eewww.
Alden Pyle on March 11, 2011 at 7:38 AM
Hah, bonus points: “Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. About 80 percent of Bangladeshis are Muslims”
Alden Pyle on March 11, 2011 at 7:40 AM
No, because unlike the Antartic, the Artic ice sheets are growing and getting thicker. I guess the warming is only semi-global.
tommyboy on March 11, 2011 at 7:55 AM
I question the timing.
Got internal emails?
locomotivebreath1901 on March 11, 2011 at 8:00 AM
I think the Magna Carta led to the medieval warm period which caused the black plague.
And I have just as much proof as the IPCC has.
tomg51 on March 11, 2011 at 8:02 AM
Their predictions prove wrong, so now they tell us their discrepancy is proof of global warming? Pffft.
petefrt on March 11, 2011 at 8:14 AM
Is this the disGRACE model data?
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on March 11, 2011 at 8:33 AM
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